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Demon's Dream
by Elle Kayson
dark
tense
medium-paced
Thick books intimidate me! I l didn’t think I could tackle 750 pages, but when @the_litcircle_bookclub decided to buddy read, I had to try.
Demon’s Dream was surprisingly effortless despite its length. The author did a great job of pulling me into this notorious crime world, with bad boys who love good girls, keeping me captive with exciting new twists along the way!
There was a lot to unpack in this bloody book so I will share some of my favorite parts:
➤Kam, Lucien, Ms. Hazel, K. Reid…
➤Demon’s background and how he became to be so venomous and void inside
➤Unexpected twists with Keith and others I didn’t see coming
➤Great sex scenes but each couple had 6+ apiece, which is overkill.
May this kind of love never find me! My issues with the story was the extreme violence, the lackluster dialogue, no character development and redundancy. I strongly feel this book could've been 300 pages shorter, if not 2 separate books.
Dream/Demon, and Smoke/Dayana had different main plots, but the dialogue & many details were identical! MOF I noticed that the sisters had the same things happen to them with slight differences! TF!!
They had the same back and forth spats over the most basic things. D/D: “Get in the car”. “No”. “I said get in the car.” “You can’t tell me what to do.” S/D: “Come here. No. Bring your ass here. I said no.” At least 20 times EACH!! Ugh!!
I think the story could’ve honed in on Demon’s growth. He mostly came off as an obnoxiously unhinged, maniacal psychopath with unwarranted Killing rampages, from start to finish. But, I liked the softness he was able to show to the kids.
I would’ve loved for D&D to grow deeper with meaningful conversations esp when he started opening up about his childhood, but it was halted with sex. The shower scene literally gave me chills and I just couldn’t get past that level of evilness… Dream was so dick-warped, but I get it 😩
The ending was rushed for me and I wasn’t really feeling the epilogue from a child’s pov. If I take away the extreme violence in and outside of the relationships, I liked it and can see why it’s become an urban classic!